“Lawfare” is a word few Americans understand, but people in many other countries have bitter experience with the pathology. The word means waging war on democracy by perverting the law into a weapon to against your political opponents.
To really understand how fickle a party’s political alignment can be, we must first study the history of the parties we have today. It is too easy to look at the parties over our lifetime and see them as an unmovable monolith, but that’s not the case in the long run. In the Trump era, …
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The mainstream media is a propaganda arm that puts out narratives beneficial to an owner class of our society. It doesn’t matter who the media represents. It could be the Democratic Party or the Republican Party interests determined by the owner class. Either way that you slice it, the news outlets are owned by powerful …
If New York succeeds in canceling the presidential primary, the hundreds of passionate, committed volunteers who worked with Simran and Kathryn to get Bernie Sanders on the New York ballot will likely feel that all their efforts were for nothing; they could not only become demoralized, but stop being involved in political activism.
Will the self-serving, socially destructive proclivities of those whose only purpose in life is to usurp all the wealth that can be usurped be allowed to continue doing so in perpetuity?
It’s time to acknowledge that Joe Biden is the Democratic Party’s candidate for president. Now we must decide what to do in November. Replacing him at the convention is not on the table, and wasting time with anti-democratic fantasies won’t help our movement at all.
There were disturbing developments during the March 10th Michigan primaries. How did Bernie Sanders lose nearly 300,000 votes over the course of two minutes? A local volunteer tells the story. We’re not accusing anyone of fraud, but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck…
For those who seek to be masters of the universe at the expense of whoever and whatever might get in their way, enough is never enough.
The media should question these cheap shots against us and stop reinforcing the negative, divisive, and false messaging about the Sanders campaign and our movement. It is harmful to democracy.